The court is (1943)

Documentary №48038, 5 parts, duration: 0:49:31
Production: CSDF (RCSDF)

Annotation:

The film tells about one of the first trials of military fascist criminals, which took place in 1943 in Kharkiv.

Reel №1

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Corpses of civilians on the territory of different cities of Ukraine.

The trial of the Nazi invaders in Kharkov.

Penalty defendants in the square in Kharkov.

Key words

Court.
The Great Patriotic War.

Personnel:

Tolstoj A. - pisatelj Erenburg I. - pisatelj

Locations: Kharkiv [899] Kiev [933] Smolensk [822]

Objects:

Court

Reel №2

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Says the judge.

The defendants Langfeld, Retslav, Ritz, Bulanov say.

Interrogations of the defendants Langfeld and Ritz.

The prosecutor and the judge ask questions, Langfeld and Ritz answer through an interpreter.

Court plans, benches with the accused, faces of people in the hall, a box with the press.

Pits with the bodies of people killed by the Nazis near the village of Podvorki, Kharkiv region.

Key words

Tribunal, war crimes

Locations: Kharkiv [899]

Objects:

Court

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Interrogation of the defendant Retslav.

The prosecutor and the judge ask questions, Retslav answers with the help of an interpreter.

Court plans, people in the hall, boxes with the press, etc.

Views of the destroyed Kharkiv.

The building of the former Kharkiv Gestapo.

Drobitsky Yar near Kharkov - in the ravine of the bodies of people killed by the Nazis.

The courtroom, the interrogation of the defendant Bulanov.

The prosecutor asks questions, Bulanov answers.

Court plans, people's faces in the hall.

Plans with burned barracks in Kharkiv.

The interrogation of the witness Heinisch, the German commissioner in Melitopol.

The prosecutor asks questions, Heinisch answers with the help of an interpreter.

Court plans, people's faces in the hall, a box with the press.

Key words

Tribunal, war criminals

Locations: Kharkiv [899]

Objects:

Court

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Interrogation of a witness, a German officer Kosh.

The prosecutor asks questions, the witness Kosh answers with the help of an interpreter.

The faces of the people in the hall.

The witness Bespalov gives evidence.

Kharkiv Forest Park in the Sokolniki district.

The witness Bespalov gives evidence.

The witness Jinchveladze gives evidence.

The witness Kozlova testifies.

The ruins of a hospital in Kharkiv.

The speech of the state prosecutor.

Courtroom plans.

Large-the defendants.

General plans of the courtroom.

People's faces in the hall, people on the balcony.

Large-the judges are at the table.

Key words

Tribunal, war criminals

Locations: Kharkiv [899]

Objects:

Court

Reel №5

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The last words of the defendants.

Wilhelm Langheld speaks, the translator translates his words.

The faces of the people in the hall.

General view of the courtroom.

Hans Rietz speaks, the translator translates his words.

General view - the judges at the table.

Consultants and experts, followed by a box with the press.

General view of the courtroom.

Reinhard Retslav speaks, the translator translates his words.

Courtroom plans.

Mikhail Bulanov speaks.

The faces of the people in the hall.

The judge announces the verdict.

People in the audience listen standing up.

Large-accused.

People in the hall applaud the verdict.

Kharkiv Square, crowds of people, there are gallows.

Criminals are taken out of cars, lifted onto platforms with gallows.

People are watching the execution.

On the gallows hang hanged fascist criminals.

The general plan of the square.

Panorama of the destroyed Kharkiv.

People are clearing the rubble.

A street of the city, a tram is going.

Monument to Taras Shevchenko.

Key words

Tribunal, war criminals, execution

Locations: Kharkiv [899]

Objects:

Court

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